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These people are getting paid since February 15th when they were fired. Meanwhile, many of these positions were being backfilled by air traffic controllers working overtime, most of the time not doing as well of a job as the person who was "fired" in the first place.
So to recap: Elon and Trump fired well qualified and necessary employees, continued to pay them after they left, then over paid someone else to do their job, but worse, making us all less safe and simultaneously overworking an already notoriously overworked group of ATCs who have one of the most stressful jobs in the world.
I dunno about you guys, but I'm not sure this Department of Government Efficiency is actually very efficient...
The whole process "DOGE" is doing is like what he did to Twitter: just start unplugging stuff until things break and then plug the last thing back in. Except this time, instead of brief interruptions to the racism app, it's real people's lives being affected both directly (the employees being fired) and indirectly (the citizens who rely on these services).
Yeah that's fine for a shitty website, but exponentially worse when it comes to keeping airplanes in the sky.
It’s almost like efficiency is a low priority for government services. Resiliency (often due to redundancy) is far more important.
The only reason to worship efficiency is if you plan to siphon out value.
I’m all for fighting corruption though.
And THAT is why you don’t “run the government like a business”
I’d argue efficiency in business also only benefits those trying to siphon off value that could be better directed to workers and customers.
Yup ,and Trump is running the country just like he runs companies, straight into the ground. At least they're consistent, I guess.
It's actually doing a fantastic job if you classify efficiency as "destroying the American government"
And are the workers who were covering far more than they should have been going to get some extra down time now that others are back? Doubt it.